‘The Emperor Deterrence may have no clothes, but he is still Emperor.’ Despite his nakedness, this emperor continues to strut about, receiving deference he doesn’t deserve, while endangering the entire world. Nuclear deterrence is an idea that became a potentially lethal ideology, one that remains influential despite having been increasingly discredited. - concluded Lawrence Freedman (the dean of British military historians and strategists) in his classic The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (1989).
The atomic bomb, and nuclear bombs, are powerful weapons that use nuclear reactions as their source of explosive energy. Scientists first developed nuclear weapons technology during World War II. Atomic bombs have been used only twice in war - both times by the United States against Japan at the end of World War II. -
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There is this theory out there that nuclear weapons do not exist. I am not quite sure what this
"do not exist" is supposed to mean exactly. Apart from having all of them
explosion videos made up, it appears that at the very least we do have the evidence of some humongous explosions. Yet, we have bizarre videos similar to the one below, where an alleged scientist claims to have been eating Uranium for years. With no negative consequences apparently.
Another suspicious event to add to the bunch would be the bombing of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. A diligent observer would notice, that image googling any other WW2 Japanese city will produce levels of destruction, comparable to the ones suffered by Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Of course all the damages suffered by other Japanese cities were officially caused by fire bombings. Those "fire bombing" damages can be observed in the below thread:
Additionally, I could say that very similar damages have been taking place quite a few years prior to the first alleged
Atomic Bomb detonation in July of 1945.
I am not pretending to be some sort of an expert on nuclear weapons, but one of the dangers of nuclear explosions is the
Nuclear Fallout.
- Nuclear fallout, or fallout, is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed.
My conventional education suggested that the affected area could be contaminated for hundreds of years. Do we really observe the consequences of such contamination in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. I do not know, do you?
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KD: I'm essentially trying to figure out what exactly is being questioned in the existence of Nuclear Weapons. Is it the ability to produce the explosion of certain magnitude, or is it the subsequent
radioactive contamination? Both explosion power, and contamination, or something entirely different?
What is your opinion on this issue? "Yes" or "No", and why?
My interest here: "something" leveled San Francisco in 1906, just like something did Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Damages are indistinguishable from each other. I find it highly suspicious. Could it be the same weapon? The one we do not know about.